8o2 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



59. Oxylebius pictus Gill. Plate lxxviii. 



Not uncommon, living among the rocks near shore. 

 Not taken by us. 



60. Zaniolepis latipinnis Girard. 



Rare in Puget Sound. It reaches a length of a foot. 

 Two specimens obtained by Prof. O. B. Johnson are in 

 the Museum of the Young Naturalists' Society. 



61. Anoplopoma fimbria (Pallas). Black Cod; 

 Beshowe. 



Common in Puget Sound, where it is valued as a food 

 fish. It reaches a length of 40 inches. 



Family COTTID^E. 



62. Jordania zonope Starks. Plate lxxix. 



Jordania zonope Starks, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 

 1895, p. 410. The three type specimens of this singular 

 fish were collected in channel rocks near Point Orchard. 

 The largest specimen (No. 3124 L. S. Jr. Univ.) is 4 

 inches long. This species has 10-1-36=46 vertebrae, a 

 number considerably in excess of that found in the related 

 genera I eel us and Artedius. 



The following is the original description of Jordania 

 zonope: 



Genus Jordania Starks. 



Allied but not closely to Triglofs and Chitonoius. 



Body elongate, not greatly compressed; head moder- 

 ate, partly scaled, with dermal flaps above. Mouth mod- 

 erate, with bands of villiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and 

 palatines. Body above lateral line closely covered with 

 strongly ctenoid scales; lower half of body with narrow, 

 parallel plate-like folds of skin, running obliquely down- 

 ward and backward from lateral line to within a short 

 distance of anal fin, the posterior edge of each fold finely 



